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Jill Lawrence on MSNBC: Tuesday Primaries, John Boehner, Ken Mehlman
Politics Daily Senior Correspondent Jill Lawrence appeared on MSNBC's "Daily Rundown" with host Chuck Todd and Dan Balz of The Washington Post to discuss this week's primaries, John Boehner's audition for House Speaker, and Ken Mehlman's decision to announce he is gay. Click play below to watch the video:

Fox News Ignores Ken Mehlman's Coming Out, Runs Zero Segments On Story
When Judge Vaughn Walker struck down Proposition 8, Fox News barely mentioned the story and its most prominent conservative commentators ignored it entirely. Yesterday, after the Atlantic’s Marc Ambinder reported that former RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman — who had orchestrated President Bush’s gay-bating 2004 re-election campaign — was coming out as gay, Fox News remained similarly mum and as of this posting has yet to run a single segment on the story. A Wonk Room review...

Fox News Covered Coming Out Of Former RNC Chair Ken Mehlman (Just Barely)
Earlier this week, former RNC chair Ken Mehlman made a bit of News when he acknowledged being Gay . This was covered rather extensively by the Cable News outlets, save one notable exception - Fox News only covered the story once, during the end of Bret Baier ’s show Friday evening. However, this contradicts reports in Think Progress and Politico , that incorrectly claimed that Fox News has completely ignored the story. Writing for Think Progress’ “Wonk...

In Covering Ken Mehlman Story, MSNBC Anchor Acknowledges He Is Gay (Updated)
Former RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman’s coming out provided the media with an opportunity to review the GOP’s record on Gay Rights and explore the Mehlman’s role in crafting President Bush’s 2004 re-election strategy. On MSNBC, Mehlman’s revelation engendered an even more honest discussion when, during a segment with GOProud chairman Christopher Barron , daytime anchor Thomas Roberts — who is an Openly Gay anchor — discussed his orientation on air: ...

In Covering Ken Mehlman Story, MSNBC Anchor Acknowledges He Is Gay (Updated)
Former RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman’s coming out provided the media with an opportunity to review the GOP’s record on Gay Rights and explore the Mehlman’s role in crafting President Bush’s 2004 re-election strategy. On MSNBC, Mehlman’s revelation engendered an even more honest discussion when, during a segment with GOProud chairman Christopher Barron , daytime anchor Thomas Roberts — who is an Openly Gay anchor — discussed his orientation on air: ...

MSNBC Appears To Be Promoting Glenn Beck's Rally More Than Fox News
The past couple of nights, Keith Olbermann has done lengthy reports on Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” Rally. He’s pointed to Fox News’ claims that they won’t promote the Rally and claimed hypocrisy as Beck’s been all over FOX & Friends and the O’Reilly Factor talking it up. However, at the end of Olbermann’s piece, we had one question: who’s really talking about the Rally more, Fox News or MSNBC? Fortunately, with the...

O'Reilly admits Fox News is "anti-liberal"
In his column today, Bill O'Reilly acknowledges that Fox News is "anti-liberal": Meantime, the anti-liberal Fox News Channel and the  Wall Street Journal , whose editorial page is conservative, are both doing very well.  FOX News is currently promoting the column on their FOX Nation website: Since President Obama's election, the network has gradually shed even the appearance of trying to live up to their "Fair and Balanced" slogan. In March 2009, Roger Ailes reportedly claimed to...

Unhinged MSNBC Host: "I Want to Kick FOX's A$$... I Want to Lift My Leg On Them" (Audio)
When he’s not screaming about torching the building , crazy Ed Schultz is attacking Conservatives, Fox News, his audience, etc. Yesterday this nut went on a rampage about how he wanted to kick Fox’s a$$ and then pi$$ on them. Listen to the absolute rage coming from this guy. He sounds dangerous. Radio Equalizer reported this from his radio show: Have you ever heard such anger and bile coming from a radio or TV host?… And, he wonders why his Ratings suck? Transcript via ...

Glenn Beck is NOT Martin Luther King Jr
It has been refreshing to see the push back in some of the Mainstream Media in the US mostly CNN and MSNBC against the misleading narrow-minded and politically motivated screed of Fox News especially. The kind of misleading commentary you see promoted in the ultra-right wings in the States these days is so emblematic of the tensions of the 60 and 70s I lived through in terms of race, violence, the Viet Nam war, Watergate, Civil Rights movements- and the list goes on. Well here is...

Conservative Bloggers Blasé About Mehlman's Coming Out?
Via Glenn , I chance upon Charlie Spiering’s great round-up of Conservative reaction to Ken Mehlman’s coming out : Ken Mehlman is gay? Most right-leaning political junkies probably responded by asking, Who is Ken Mehlman? or Yeah, but who cares? Conservative Bloggers either ignored the topic or pointed out that Conservatives arent necessarily surprised or outraged by the news. I had absolutely no idea Ken Mehlman was gay, or existed, wrote the Daily...

Bill Maher Tells Larry King That RNC Chair Ken Mehlman is Gay
As NewsBuster Brad Wilmouth reported , comedian Bill Maher was on with CNNs Larry King Wednesday night saying some rather outrageous things. Beyond his derogatory comments about President Bush, Maher told King: A lot of the chiefs of staff, the people who really run the underpinnings of the Republican Party, are gay. When King pressed Maher for names, Maher said, Ken Mehlman ( video here ). King then questioned Mahers sincerity: I never heard that. I'm walking around...

Beck says rally wanted to reclaim civil rights 'from politics'
Conservative commentator Glenn Beck said Sunday that his revival-style rally yesterday at the Lincoln Memorial was meant to reclaim the U.S. Civil Rights movement from politics. Washington (CNN) - Conservative commentator Glenn Beck says his weekend revival-style rally at the Lincoln Memorial was meant to reclaim the U.S. Civil Rights movement "from politics," arguing that the movement was about "people of faith." Beck told Fox News, the network that carries his weekday television...

Mike Farris to appear on Huckabee Sat November 7 at 8pm EST
I have been alerted that Mike Farris of parentalrights.org will appear tomorrow, Saturday November 7 at 8:00pm on the Huckabee Show which airs on the Fox News Channel . He will be discussing two cases that are currently before the Supreme Court in which briefs have been submitted by Amnesty International and other organizations that urge the Court to apply the UNCRC to these cases even though this treaty has not yet been ratified in this country. The way the Court rules in this case could...

Mehlman and Marriage
It was somewhat amusing to hear, in Marc Ambinder’s account of how Ken Mehlman , the former Republican National Committee chairman, came out to him, that Mehlman is particularly sorry about not getting enough Gay votes for the Republican party. He thinks he could have—for one thing, they all could have “formed common cause with Republican opponents of Islamic Jihad, which he called ’the greatest Anti-gay force in the world right now.’ ” Is opposition...

Ken Mehlman and the same-sex marriage debate
Supporters of Same-Sex Marriage have a new and unexpected advocate: Ken Mehlman, a former chairman of the Republican National Committee and manager of President George W. Bush 's 2004 Reelection Campaign. This Story View All Items in This Story View Only Top Items in This Story This Story View All Items in This Story View Only Top Items in This Story Mehlman, now a Private Citizen and businessman, disclosed that he is Gay in an article published online Wednesday in the Atlantic. He said...

Scumbag Ken Mehlman Factoid
Don't forget for one fucking minute that it was Ken Mehlman who presided over the Republican Party while the GOP ensured that Anti-gay items would be on MANY state ballots in order to drive homophobes to the polls. From Marc Ambinder's Atlantic column: Mehlman said at the time that he could not, as an individual Republican, go against the party consensus. He was aware that Karl Rove, President Bushs chief strategic adviser, had been working with Republicans to make sure that Anti-gay...

Mehlman's outing stirs ire on right
The unity of the Republican Party 's electoral coalition may have been dealt a setback this week when longtime top party official Ken Mehlman walked out of the closet. Many Washington insiders long had suspected that Mr. Mehlman , a former Republican National Committee chairman who ran President George W. Bush 's 2004 re-election campaign, is Gay, but the public admission - and Mr. Mehlman 's promise to work actively for legalizing Same-Sex Marriages - clash for many with the party 's...

How Big Is the G.O.P. Tent?
As head of the Republican National Committee from 2005 to 2007, Ken Mehlman was part of the party's leadership that stepped up Anti-gay efforts, in part to energize its Conservative Base for the 2006 Elections. Last week, he made an announcement that he is Gay and is working to support Same-Sex Marriage . Although the news made less of a splash than it might have in 2004, it did highlight the continuing tensions in the Republican Party between the strong social Conservatives and those more...

Ken Mehlman Gay Revelation: GOP Shift on Same Sex Marriage?
Six years ago Ken Mehlman was running the re-election campaign of a president who sought a Constitutional Amendment to ban Same-Sex Marriage. '); } Now he's the nation's most prominent Openly Gay Republican and the latest member of the George W. Bush Administration to support extending Marriage Rights to Gays and Lesbians. Mehlman has been working as a Fundraiser and Strategist for the American Foundation for Equal Rights -- a group that supports Same-Sex Marriage and is suing to...

BUSH AIDE KEN MEHLMAN'S LIFE IN THE CLOSET - IF IT WAS AN OPEN SECRET WHY DID IT TAKE SO LONG FOR HIM TO COME OUT?
In October 2009, at the age of 61, I came out. Why I stayed in the closet so long is the same reason Mehlman did: for a job. I had an early calling for the teaching profession. I didnt just play school. I taught an imaginary class from the age of 7 through the age of 13, anywhere from two to four hours at a time, five to six times a week. I had a blackboard on the wall. I made roll sheets, each class having about 30 Students, every Student given a name, and attached to a...

Ken Mehlman gay? Online conservatives don't seem to care much
Ken Mehlman is gay? Most right-leaning political junkies probably responded by asking, ‘Who is Ken Mehlman?’ or ‘Yeah, but who cares?’ Conservative Bloggers either ignored the topic or pointed out that Conservatives aren’t necessarily surprised or outraged by the news. “I had absolutely no idea Ken Mehlman was gay, or existed,” wrote the Daily Caller’s Jim Treacher in response to the New York Times piece that marveled at the “muted...

I had absolutely no idea Ken Mehlman was gay, or existed
And neither did most other people, as the New York Times ‘ Kate Zernike (of “Jason Mattera’s Brooklyn accent makes him a Racist” infamy ) has discovered : …when Ken Mehlman, who ran President George W. Bushs re-election campaign in 2004 and then became the partys chairman, said in an interview in The Atlantic this week that he is Gay and is working to support a campaign for Same-Sex Marriage, it was met with little controversy. Even the commentary accusing...

Video: Maher “outs” Ken Mehlman on Larry King
True to classy form , the sage of Wilshire Boulevard regales Larry with a bit of impromptu slander and a promise of more to come on his show this Friday. Why? Because of the hypocrisy, of course. And because it’s his job to make sure you know about it. Newsbusters notes that this bit was conveniently edited out of the midnight rerun.

Gay Republicans Rising
Will the Republican party follow Ken Mehlman’s lead and step out on Gay Rights? Historian Timothy McCarthy imagines a future where the GOP starts talking like Harvey Milk.

How we should be treating Ken Mehlman
official to eventually come out as gay, plain and simple. Top GOP officials have invited him into their lives, made emotional connections with him, and generally built a solid network with a guy who at one point was the linchpin of the Rove-run GOP strategy. Like him or not, he is an incredible asset for LGBTQ rights, and he's ready to step up and do his part to undo the mess he created in the 2000-2008 Bush era. Even with all the bad blood I think we can agree that Mehlman has unique...